Word: condescendingness
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Coleman Hawkins was something of a disappointment. His tone was threadbare in the upper registers, his ideas frequently lapsed into blatant rifts. Worst of all, Hawkins' attitude toward the audience can only be called condescending. Still, there were moments when the old Hawkshowed through, and those were, worth the price...
In all fairness to the Army, however, it has been more alert and has done more towards the integration of the Negro into its ranks than has the Navy. But this integration has been more of a condescending acceptance of the Negro--because men are needed to fight wars--than...
Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island made Bell an honorary canon of St. John's Cathedral, Providence. But of late years he has steered clear of parochial duties. Bell offends some listeners by his acid speech, Socialist ideas and condescending manner. He also lost a great deal...
Success was heady. In the tonic atmosphere of the victories it was easy for many people to forget the problems that were still unsolved. But voices soon reminded the people that the war and the peace were still enormously problematical. From India, Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar answered a condescending harangue of Winston...
You can get a $968 box at the opera for $822 next season. The box seats eight people and is good for ten performances. This announcement by the San Francisco Opera Company may not trumpet tidings of great joy to U.S. operagoers, but it shows the way the wind is...